No title link. Just this shot and details pulled via this auction."Data Cassette for Korg Poly 61 analog synthesizer with factory MIDI retrofit."
Note the auction states the Korg Poly 61, but the cassette clearly has Poly 6 printed on it. The Polysix wasn't spelled Poly 6. Anyone know more about this?
Poly 61 didn't have a midi retrofit either- it was released the subsequent year as the Poly61m.
ReplyDeleteits just factory patches for the 8 banks of the polysix. i have one around here somewhere that has never been played. maybe i should convert it to mp3 for people?
ReplyDeleteThe Poly-61 DID have a factory MIDI retrofit - mine has it (and it's not an "M").
ReplyDeleteThe tape is part of the poly 6 midi kit that was availiable for a short time in the late 80's.I purchase mine directly from Korg and it seems that Stoney Stockwell (DK Synergy fame)was the chap I spoke to back then. The kit also gave the poly six 120 memory locations(similar layout to the OBX-a)and you could use the midi in as a clock for the arp..I used the arp to trigger deep bass sounds on the "Jo Cang, Navigator" album recorded at The Church studios,london.... I moved from Ohio to London in 1989 and in that year I partially installed the kit in my U.K. poly 6, which operated at a higher operating voltage. I was not totally confident with my electrical skills especially with the different juice in london.I took it to the local service center to have them inspect my work and connect it to the Poly 6's 220volts power supply which is slightly different than the U.S.version. They said I did a fine job installing the kit and that they modified the conection to the power supply... and that will be £126 thank you very much. They then asked if it was o.k. to make a copy the sounds because they were the best that they had heard...I agreed....regrettably I sold the P6 about 12 years ago.....NOW THE GOOD NEWS...Last December close to christmas(2006) a near mint Poly-6 literally appeared on my doorstep out of nowhere, attached to the fake wood side were two stickies with the message.. "Merry Christmas Kyle from Phil""warning(110volt)" Although the ouside is minty mint the internal observation shows that the battery should have been replaced long ago. This is my one of my current projects,...anyone out there ever bend a poly-6.Replies to kolson@homechoice.co.uk Now I need another midi kit ...any ideas
ReplyDeleteJust in repair of 3 Poly-61s, i just hacked the tape format because one of the synths has a broken CPU which i want to replace by something AVR-based with own firmware (MIDI is planned in it :). The data falling out from the tape is 2 bytes representing "P6", then 512 bytes of patch data (8 bytes per patch), followed by a checksum byte (all 512 patch bytes added together) as a terminator. So even if the synth is named Poly-61, the tape format also says something like Poly 6.
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